Keep getting nuisance phone calls. May be 2 a day ppi 0844 0845 ect; and other crap so I've registered with TPS Which says it stops you receiving unwanted sales calls. So just wondering if anyone used such services and do they work.

Works as long as you never give out your phone number and make sure that you tick/untick (read the form carefully, some are opt in, some are opt out) preferences whenever you fill in any form. The moment you miss one, you run the risk of getting more calls.

TPS works to a degree

but i still receive them, and always tick my boxes and ask people if they give my details to others etc

I get calls, from the same company, and i always ask how they got my number, which they say it on the system, not knowing how it gets on there, or its random number generator, strange how my number is randomly generated so many times and how its not a sales call, but they cant say what they are offering will not cost me anything

Why are they always reluctant to give me their details too

They blast the company name out, so you can't correctly hear it

i then ask for the address which they never know, but i tell them they must know it, how do they get to work each day they tell me it will come up on google but i still insist they provide it too me

I ask for a telephone number, which they never have as they are outbound only,

i then ask for their ltd company number for correct identification,

is there a head office,

in the head office is there a department that deals with inbound calls

is there a email address for head office

what's their email, name and surname, so i know who i am talking too

which office they are calling from

how exactly they are given my number , is it like a fruit machine that they pull a lever and the numbers randomly appear and they dial it in the phone.

its randomly generated, how does it know my name also and does it randomly generate any other numbers, like the lotto, as its got to be good if it can randomly generate a number and get the name right too

nothing better than keeping them talking, when they are on dodgy commission only based wages on a non selling outbound call centre sales job

9/10 times they just hang up, but its fun them off

The preference services for phone and mail seem to work well as I have been signed up to them for years. Just make sure you always tick or untick the box as appropriate when filling in any forms.

I did have a ltd company and there seems to be no way of stopping calls and mail relating to that even thought it is now closed. GONE - '07 TD4 GS manual Zermatt Silver
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Been on TPS for years and always will be, it won't stop illegal calls but its mostly worked for me. If a company calls me the conversation doesn't progress until I have their company name, even if they have to spell it to me several times, I then notify them I'm on the TPS system, they shouldn't be calling me and can they remove me from their database please, I'll be reporting you to the TPS and OSI (I think it is), thanks and goodbye.

Annoyingly 'market research' companies are still legally able to call you, but same treatment, remove me, don't call me again goodbye.

It won't stop the calls but if you want to annoy them, what they really hate is if you say 'sure hang on I'll just get him' and then just leave the phone to one side and carry on with what you are doing, they will hang there for minutes.  
Hung like Einstein, smart as a horse.

Gentlemen, there is an easier way to stop the calls - or at least enjoy them.

When a nuisance call happens, simply take a cue from the Exorcist and start screaming "THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!" over and over and over...

Do not put your number on any online forms, if you have, always put a false number in, if it insists you enter one to get you through to the next section, you can always speak to the company afterwards to get them to change the details if you need to, I use an 01423 360*** number, works well for me.

I registered with TPS and get the odd nuisance call.
So I sing to them.
My voice does for music what Hitler did for peace  Another member of the failed FL2 clutch/DMF club, twice.

play you guitar, put them in more pain

I always find a swift 'f**k off' works!

npinks wrote:

play you guitar, put them in more pain

Now now
You'd be surprised at the range of my guitars; depends how hard you throw it  Another member of the failed FL2 clutch/DMF club, twice.

Cannonball wrote:

I always find a swift 'f**k off' works!

Caller display, dont recognise the number, dont pick up the phone, easy

Never used to get many of these calls... until i left BT. Now i get quite a few of them, coincidence? Caller display now, save them as spam in my phone so i can see when they call.

Really annoying when the other half is on night shift, tend to leave the phone off now.

Should be illegal to phone someone randomly, but until the money isn't there it will continue.

LoP

There was a guy on the news recently that setup a premium rate phone line into his home and gave that number out, he was actually making money from the calls. 
Hung like Einstein, smart as a horse.